1Ch 4:9-20 | ESV | STEP | Jabez was more honorable than his brothers ; and his mother called his name Jabez , saying , Because I bore him in pain .

1 Chronicles 4:9-20

9 Jabez was ^amore honorable than his brothers; and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, “Because I bore him in pain.” ^{▼▼ Jabez sounds like the Hebrew for pain} 10 Jabez called upon the God of Israel, saying, “Oh that you would bless me and enlarge my border, and that your hand might be with me, and that you would keep me from harm ^{▼▼Or evil} so that it might not bring me pain!” And God granted what he asked. 11 Chelub, the brother of Shuhah, fathered Mehir, who fathered Eshton. 12 Eshton fathered Beth-rapha, Paseah, and Tehinnah, the father of Ir-nahash. These are the men of Recah. 13 The sons of ^dKenaz: ^eOthniel and Seraiah; and the sons of Othniel: Hathath and Meonothai. ^{▼▼Septuagint, Vulgate; Hebrew lacks Meonothai} 14 Meonothai fathered Ophrah; and Seraiah fathered Joab, the father of Ge-harashim, ^{▼▼ Ge-harashim means valley of craftsmen} so-called because they were craftsmen. 15 The sons of ^hCaleb the son of Jephunneh: Iru, Elah, and Naam; and the son ^{▼▼Hebrew sons} of Elah: Kenaz. 16 The sons of Jehallelel: Ziph, Ziphah, Tiria, and Asarel. 17 The sons of Ezrah: Jether, Mered, Epher, and Jalon. These are the sons of Bithiah, the daughter of Pharaoh, whom Mered married; ^{▼▼The clause These are . . . married is transposed from verse 18} and she conceived and bore ^{▼▼Hebrew lacks and bore} Miriam, Shammai, and Ishbah, the father of Eshtemoa. 18 And his Judahite wife bore ^lJered the father of Gedor, Heber the father of Soco, and Jekuthiel the father of Zanoah. 19 The sons of the wife of Hodiah, the sister of Naham, were the fathers of Keilah the Garmite and Eshtemoa the Maacathite. 20 The sons of Shimon: Amnon, Rinnah, Ben-hanan, and Tilon. The sons of Ishi: Zoheth and Ben-zoheth.